Rebounds
BB and Raven had arrived at the Tower. Quickly, they went to the living room.
The door opened. In front of the screen was the rest of the team.
"Where were you?" Robin asked.
"Yeah, what were you guys doing?" Cy add.
"We haven't seen you friends all morning." Starfire pointed out.
"Uh…"
Beast Boy held his tongue.
"That doesn't matter." Raven spoke.
"What's the trouble?" BB questioned, changing the subject.
"We've discovered that someone has penetrated into a storehouse about 9 minutes ago, in the docks. The alarm in it was activated, and we received the signal."
"Then let's move!" Cy hastened.
Robin nodded his head. Everyone ran through the door and left their base.
Going on a mission would occupy the green one's thoughts. But having this mission along with the disturbance of the recent events wasn't good either.
After they have crossed the city, they had reached the storehouses.
"The docks…" the leader informed.
"Which storehouse?" Cy asked.
"That one." Robin indicated.
It was a little up ahead.
They approached to the building.
They started to draw near it, when suddenly BB sensed it. A stench of sticky rottenness flooded his nose. He felt nausea.
No one else seemed to notice it.
There was also something else about that smell that was familiar to him. The stench of a hot, corrosive liquid.
The team was only a few meters from the storehouse.
"Hey guys…" the animal shifter called.
"What is it Beast Boy?" Robin questioned.
"Don't wanna get cocky but, I bet five bucks that Plasmus is inside that storehouse."
"And you concluded that based on?" Starfire asked.
"That I'm almost suffocating with his disgusting smell!"
"Come on BB! How can you sense his stench? That building completely blocks the inside from the outside. Not even my sonic scanning it's able of detecting a pulse!" Cy argued.
"Maybe it has a leak!"
"Or maybe you're just making that up!" Cy continued.
"Guys, I'm telling ya that…"
He shut. He heard a growl. Felt the stomps on the ground, rushing to the storehouse's door. All in one second, that wasn't enough time to warn them.
The door was violently pulled and thrown to the teens. All executed evasive maneuvers, and no one was harmed.
Now the smell was clear to everyone. A roar invaded the air. The dust and dark that was in that storehouse concealed the enemy.
The creature gave a few steps, revealing it before the sunlight. It was Plasmus.
"That…Was an impressive hunch." Robin said as he looked at the enormous monster.
"Quite impressive Beast Boy!" Starfire commented.
"Alright! Are we done now?" Cy said a bit grumpy.
"What about if we stop talking and take care of him first?" Raven said on her usual, moody tone of voice.
"Titans, go!"
And so, the battle had begun.
Raven used her telekinetic powers and wrapped the creature with an iron girder.
Starfire shoot starbolts as fast as she could.
Robin cast three discs at the legs of the opponent, freezing them on the impact.
Cyborg armed his sonic cannon and fired at one of the acid blister, which popped with sonority. The liquid trickled through the sore.
"IIIARGHHHH!!!!" the villain screamed.
Beast Boy changed into a rhinoceros, and moved toward Plasmus.
Still disoriented by the blast, it didn't saw what was coming. Before it even notice, the green charging tank was already knocking it to the ground.
Plasmus was lied down.
The green changeling transformed into a Raptor. The dinosaur moved with swiftness and speed.
But before his teeth could harm the creature, it gets rid of the girder around him and the ice on his legs.
Plasmus spit a huge sticky mass of purple mud, hitting the animal shifter.
He gets stuck in it, impeding any movement.
He tries numerous forms in order to break free, but with no success.
"Uh…Dudes? I think that I have a problem here!" Beast Boy said with increasing worry, because Plasmus was getting up.
Robin received the message and mobilized the team to help the green one.
Starfire and Cyborg kept using their ranged attacks. Robin ran to the monstrous blob as he pulled a gadget that turned into a metal staff.
The villain was now almost upon BB, but it stepped back with the sonic ray and the starbolts. Realizing where the offensive came from, it turned his attention to the two attackers. Plasmus plucked out a big rock from the ground and threw at the mechanical man.
"Howf!"
"Cyborg!" the alien girl cried.
But while she was distracted, a purple arm stretched at an incredible length, and the hand brutally punched her. Starfire fell on the ground, unconscious.
Robin prosecuted his attack. When he was close enough, he jumped in the air, and stroked with his weapon.
No use. The target anticipated the leader's move and grabbed the staff. Then while holding it, he tossed Robin into a building.
Seeing no one else interfering, it turned to BB.
He was still struggling.
Then a shadow moved in the ground. It moved to the location between the green one and the enormous monster.
A blue cloak emerged.
Raven concentrated, trying to achieve balance.
She was aware of all that surrounded her. The horrible breath from Plasmus's mouth. Beast Boy's heartbeats. The energies flowing through her body.
She looked at the villain.
The mystical light in her eyes appeared.
"Azarath…"
"You see it."
"Metrion…"
"You hear it."
"Zinth…"
"It calls for you..."
The light vanished from her eyes. The trance had been disturbed. She felt a sense of constriction on the heart, and it started beating fast.
She tried to use her powers, but from her hands came only a vague, dark luminescence.
The gothic girl was surprised, and was now feeling nervous.
She looked at Beast Boy.
Without her powers, they were defenseless.
The villain sends another creepy shriek. It took a step forward.
Raven looked at the monster's movements.
"Raven, just go!"
She looked at him once again.
Their gaze met each other's eyes.
"Get out of here." He said, with an unnatural calmness.
Plasmus was now upon them. He lifted his arms, with both hands behind his head. They joined one to another, forming a hammer-like mass. He was about to smash them.
With her fists closed, the gothic crossed her arms in front of her head.
But then…
"IAAAARRRRRRGGHHH!!!!!!"
An electric shock stunned the villain, and after the scream, he fell to the ground once more.
Behind him was Robin. He had caught the enemy from the back, with one of his devices.
Now that he was asleep the purple matter slowly melted, revealing only a normal kid.
"Close call back there. Are you okay?" Robin asked.
Raven was still silent.
"I think so…" Beast Boy said in a low voice.
"Could you give me a hand?"
"Sure."
Robin cut BB's way out of that goo trap. When he got loose, he directed his attention to her. Motionless, silent and constantly beautiful. So distant…
Cyborg and Starfire approached to the place where the kid was.
"No need to ask, Robin. We're both fine." Cy declared.
"And…He's asleep?" the metal man questioned.
"Like a baby." The leader said.
"That is baby that we certainly do not wish to wake up." Starfire affirmed.
"But…what was he doing here?" BB asked.
"I'm going to have a look inside the storehouse, see if there's any clue. The rest of you stay here and keep an eye on him."
He entered the building.
While the leader searched the building, Cy started questioning what should they do later.
The talk was short and with lack of interest, at least for the green changeling.
BB looked at the gothic girl, her back turned to him. He approaches to her.
"Raven…"
Silent prevailed for a moment.
"It never happened. My powers…I've always been able to use them. They had never failed…" she said, her voice transpiring the confusion that was feeling.
"That's okay! Everyone has its slips." BB said, not very confident.
"No. It isn't an ordinary thing. I feel strange…"
The silence prevailed.
"What should I say?" the green one thought.
"You idiot! You should have played on the defensive! But noooo. You had to rush into the first line and then get trapped into that goo!!!! Really smart of you!!"
They said nothing until Robin's return.
"What did you find out?" Cy questioned.
"It seems that he was kept in some sort of capsule inside of a transportation box. He was going to be sent to somewhere else. But the high level of radiation in the barrels with toxic chemicals next by must have awakened him."
"And…What now?" Starfire asked.
"We'll trust this one to the authorities and get back to the Tower. We've got to find who was trying to transport Plasmus out of here."
Everyone entered the T-Car. Beast Boy stood outside.
"Hey BB, aren't you coming?" the tin man asked.
"Uh…I think that I'm going to fly a bit. Catch some air…" he said, not very convencing.
"Umm…Okay."
Cyborg found out quite unnatural of BB's behavior. Still, he started the engines and started to drive home.
BB was on their tail, just a bit further away, in his pterodactyl form.
The team went back to base…